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Pluralistic: Canny Valley (04 Sep 2025)

Today's links Canny Valley: My little art-book is here! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Ballmer throws a chair; Bruce Sterling on Singapore; RIP David Graeber; Big Car warns of lethal Right to Repair. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent ...

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Pluralistic: The worst possible antitrust outcome (03 Sep 2025)

Today's links The worst possible antitrust outcome: Hope you like enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Amazon drivers hang phones from trees; DVD Jon v Windows DRM; Chevron's dirty tricks. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...

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Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025)

Today's links All (antitrust) politics are local: From data-centers to Ticketmaster. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pokerbot back-channels; Little Robot; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appear...

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Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)

Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. ...

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Pluralistic: A weekend's worth of links (30 Aug 2025)

Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy disk CD sleeves; Rules for radicals; California's preventable fires; Muppet Haunted Mansion; Wells Fargo steals rescued Nazi loot; Texas abortion release. Upcoming appearances: ...

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Pluralistic: The capitalism of fools (28 Aug 2025)

Today's links The capitalism of fools: Trump's mirror-world New Deal. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: IBM's fabric design; Nixon Cthulu; Surveillance capitalism is capitalism, with surveillance; Dismaland ad; Outdoor ed vs TB; Mathematicians' fave ...

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Pluralistic: By all means, tread on those people (26 Aug 2025)

Today's links By all means, tread on those people: We know you love freedom, we just wish you'd share. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: The right to bear cameras; GOP wants slavery for undocumented migrants; Telepresence Nazi-punching. Upcoming appe...

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Pluralistic: Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter) (25 Aug 2025)

Today's links Enshittification, the audiobook (the Kickstarter): A disenshittified audiobook about enshittification. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Open source DRM?!; Sad Puppies lose big; Meritocratic delusion. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...

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Pluralistic: Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed (23 Aug 2025)

Today's links Friction cannot be reduced, it can only be redistributed: The better things are for your boss, the worse they are for you. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Dr Bruce Sterling; Buddy Holly's overnight bag; Zombie postcapitalism. Upcoming...

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Pluralistic: Radical juries (22 Aug 2025)

Today's links Radical juries: They sure hate Big Tech. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DIY TSA universal keys; Steve Jackson Games raid +20. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin'...

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Pluralistic: Melissa Mendes's "The Weight" (21 Aug 2025)

Today's links Melissa Mendes's "The Weight": Graphic novel as emotional roller-coaster. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Windows 10 killswitch; Ashley Madison copyfraud; Ulysses pacts; "Blackheart Man." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...

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Pluralistic: Become unoptimizable (20 Aug 2025)

Today's links Become unoptimizable: Twiddle or be twiddled. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Penguins v Microsoft in the EU; Chastity belts are a joke; Austerity breeds Nazis, Yale says, "Prepare for death." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. R...

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Pluralistic: Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." (19 Aug 2025)

Today's links Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up (magically). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HST in space; It Plays Doom; Deserted Chinese themeparks; Banksy's Dismaland; Dollars are better than warra...

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Pluralistic: Zuckermuskian solopsism (18 Aug 2025)

Today's links Zuckermuskian solopsism: They just don't think other people are real. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist; Disenshittify or Die; Food arrangement copyrights, S...

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Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025)

Today's links LLMs are slot-machines: You only remember the jackpots. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Heinlein bio; Amazon bans Amazon-critical podcasts; How to Argue With a Racist. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where ...

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Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025)

Today's links Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK does this mean?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: No-fly babies; Stephen Harper's Red Dawn; DHS pre...

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Pluralistic: "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)

Today's links "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vampire sf; Trickle-down Sesame Street; Transgenic mouse bribery; WPA StreetView; Walmart's policy origins. Upcom...

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Pluralistic: Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage (13 Aug 2025)

Today's links Maga's boss class think they are immune to American carnage: They're in for a surprise. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Paradox of choice (screens); Perpetual Lenovo crapware; Trump's Solicitor General: "bribery is legal"; Marvel's 10...

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Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law (of AI) (11 Aug 2025)

Today's links Goodhart's Law (of AI): When a metric becomes a target, AI can hit it every time. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bill Ayers graphic novel; Foxconn in India; Uber loses $4B; Warren Buffet, monopolist. Upcoming appearances: Where to fi...

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Pluralistic: Millionaire on billionaire violence (10 Aug 2025)

Today's links Millionaire on billionaire violence: Let them fight. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Private equity vs investors; French teens who fought Nazis Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books:...

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Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025)

Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Slinky treadmill; Ovipositors; Peter Thiel was right. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep r...

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Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)

Today's links Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Circular batteries; Prison for file-sharing, Satanic abortions. Upcoming appearances: Where to find m...

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Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025)

Today's links Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: David Byrne vs Spotify; India's porn ban; Qanon ARG; Contextual ads; Leveraged buyouts aren't mortgages. Upcoming a...

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Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025)

Today's links AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned to be statistically indistinguishable from correct code. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: A universal remote for killing people; Win10 spies out of th...

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Pluralistic: AI's pogo-stick grift (02 Aug 2025)

Today's links AI's pogo-stick grift: The hard part is operating in an unpredictable, adversarial, unstructured world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Galaksija, TSA shock-wand, Reverse-centaur apocalypse. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Rec...

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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025)

Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree. Upcoming appearances: Where to ...

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Pluralistic: You can't fight enshittification (31 Jul 2025)

Today's links You can't fight enshittification: (But we can.) Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Apple and trusted computing; TSA mocks travelers; Self-bricking med-tech. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Lat...

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Pluralistic: Delta's AI-based price-gouging (30 Jul 2025)

Today's links Delta's AI-based price-gouging: Running an airline like a hedge-fund. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DHS RFIDs tourists; Solar heroin; International development and the copyfight Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appeara...

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Pluralistic: Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup (29 Jul 2025)

Today's links Boss-politics antitrust and the MAGA crackup: The Tunney Act stirs the pot. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Hearware, 10,000 superballs; Bitcoin is not socialist; Stupid and dangerous video game cheating lawsuit. Upcoming appearances:...

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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025)

Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you rely on the most. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Used books economics; Adbusters sf; Branson vs virgins; Shark knife; Protesters must pledge souls to ...